I’m inclined to say that it’s just bad editing. However, ‘debtor’ can also have the connotation that the debtor has sinned against one. So maybe those referred to have sinned against Mike Tyson and Iraq by extending an unreasonably optimistic line of credit.

You can’t intend this question seriously, John. Which is not to say that it could never become standard usage. ‘I could care less!’ seems to be standard usage in the US, even though it says the opposite of what people mean by it.

Looks like bad editing. According The American Heritage Dictionary (I’m quoting from dictionary.com here), a “debtor” is:

1. One that owes something to another.
or

2. One who is guilty of a trespass or sin; a sinner.

Mike Tyson certainly falls under the second category, but where the owing of money is involved, I think the first meaning is clear. You only have to think of the word’s opposite, “creditor” to get the logic right.

Perhaps we can complicate matters even further by coining the term “debtee” to refer to the person who is owed? Or more correctly I suppose, the one who puts another “in debt”. English is a “living language” after all… 😉